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Frontiers of Research on Foreign Assistance and Food Security

Frontiers of Research on Foreign Assistance and Food Security. Will Masters Professor and Chair, Department of Food and Nutrition Policy, Tufts University www.nutrition.tufts.edu | sites.tufts.edu/ willmasters. C-FARE panel on Agricultural Development AAEA annual meetings, Seattle WA

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Frontiers of Research on Foreign Assistance and Food Security

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  1. Frontiers of Research on Foreign Assistance and Food Security Will Masters Professor and Chair, Department of Food and Nutrition Policy, Tufts University www.nutrition.tufts.edu | sites.tufts.edu/willmasters C-FARE panel on Agricultural Development AAEA annual meetings, Seattle WA 12-14 August 2012

  2. Frontiers in all directions Development outcomes Research Problems

  3. Changed priorities for foreign aid ODA commitments for health, agriculture and in total, 1967-2010 What can we in agriculture learn from the rise in global health programs? Source: Calculated from OECD (2012), Official Bilateral Commitments by Sector, downloaded 8 August 2012 (http://stats.oecd.org/qwids). Agriculture includes forestry and fisheries. Values are billions of constant US dollars at 2010 prices (both axes).

  4. Changed leadership in foreign aid Top 15 donors’ foreign aid commitments to African agriculture, 2005-2008 Jim Kim, M.D. Chris Elias, M.D. The top three donors to African agriculture are led by health-care experts! Note: Exact amounts for BMGF have been obscured because methodology differs from that used by the DAC. Source: P. Pingali, G. Traxler and T. Nguyen (2011), “Changing Trends in the Demand and Supply of Aid for Agriculture Development and the Quest for Coordination.” Annual Meetings of the AAEA, July 24–26, 2011. Raj Shah, M.D.

  5. Agriculture =?= Health Similar but different: Stylized innovations and interventions in agriculture and health Similar problems, different solutions Location-specific: Diverse agro-ecologies call for local trials from global crosses Disease-specific: Shared human biology calls for local access to global knowledge Delivered geographically: Market infrastructure and institutions Delivered individually: Non-market service delivery and behavior change

  6. Agriculture =?= Health Similar but different: Stylized industry structure Public domain knowledge, common property resources and other social structures Farm input suppliers Health input suppliers Many diverse farmers ==> A very different research agenda! Health care providers Farm output marketers Many diverse food consumers and health-care beneficiaries

  7. Frontiers of agri-health research Core hypotheses of integrated agriculture-nutrition-health programs • Focus on: • Service provision for individual beneficiaries • Household production of nutritious/healthy things • Advisory services and knowledge • Focus off: • Markets (no competition among alternative suppliers) • Income (no separability between production & consumption) • Information (no optimization by consumers) • This is not crazy! • It is well suited to the needs of health service providers

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